Google Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6 Astra but burns more tokens

google has unveiled gemini 4 argon, its latest flagship model that closes the gap with frontier models from openai and anthropic. argon supports up to one million output tokens, letting it work through complex reasoning in a single pass without timing out. it is initially being rolled out to a group of 'trusted cyber defenders' as part of the fairwind program. google plans to open argon up to developers, businesses, and consumers, starting with paying api customers and google ai ultra subscribers, as soon as possible. pricing is set at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached inputs discounted by 95 percent.